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[The black knight], Okumura Masanobu - Ukiyo e print

Print shows a man, possibly an actor or a samurai, with sword, holding an umbrella, wearing a black kimono and geta. Adachi modern reprint (Showa). Forms part of: Japanese prints and drawings (Library of Congress).

Kiyomitsu Torii - Bandō hikosaburō - Ukiyo e print

Print shows Bandō Hikosaburō, an actor, full-length portrait, standing, facing left. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-2006. Format: Hosoban... More

Kiyomitsu Torii - Ichimura kamezo no kyo no jirō

Print shows the actor Ichimura Kamezo performing a fan dance. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Format: Hosoban Benizuri-e. Forms part o... More

Nidaime ichikawa monnosuke - Public domain portrait print

Print shows the actor Ichikawa Monnosuke II, full-length portrait, facing left, standing on snow-covered veranda.

Hako chotin o motsu nidaime ichikawa monnosuke, Shunsh Katsukawa

Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Format: one of a set of Hosoban Nishikie. Forms part of: Japanese prints and drawings (Library of Congress).

Ichimuraza no mae no iroko - Public domain drawing

Print shows two young men dreaming about acting at the theater. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Format: Hashirae-ban Nishikie. Forms p... More

Segawa Rokō no Matsukaze - Public domain Japanese woodblock print

Print shows Segawa Roko, an actor, as Matsukaze, one of two sisters, with a shoulder pole carrying salt water from the sea.

Iwai hanshirō, Utagawa Kunisada, Japan - Ukiyo e print

Print shows the actor Iwai Hanshirō portraying a woman dressed as a wandering monk. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Format: vertical O... More

Nanadaime ichikawa danjūrō no ebiza ko no ju

Print shows the actor Ichikawa Danjūrō VII, full-length, sitting on a bench, wearing geta, facing right, holding a pipe, in the role Konoju of Ebiza. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibun... More

Nakamura shikan no sadaka (to) nakamura matsue no hinadori

Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Format: vertical Oban Nishikie, Osaka-e. Forms part of: Japanese prints and drawings (Library of Congress).

Ofusa tokubei, Utagawa Kunisada, Japan - Ukiyo e print

Print shows a full-length portrait of a Ofusa, a young woman about to depart on a suicide journey in order to spend eternity with her lover Tokubei. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunk... More

Onoe baikō, Utagawa Toyokuni - Public domain drawing

Print shows the actor Onoe Baiko, full-length portrait, standing on a boat, wearing heavy coat and geta, during snowstorm. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print spe... More

Utagawa Toyokuni - Bandō minosuke no mitsuhida

Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Format: probably the central panel of a vertical Oban Nishikie triptych. Forms part of: Japanese print... More

Yamauba, Hokkei Totoya - Public domain drawing

Print shows two actors wearing masks as mountain women. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-2006. From the series: Nō jōgoban : 18 Noh plays. ... More

[William E. Burton, actor and theatrical impresario, three-quarter len...

Reference copy in BIOG FILE. Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

D. Chapin. Mathew Brady photograph of American Civil War period.

Title from unverified information on negative sleeve. Actor. Credit line: Brady-Handy photograph collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purchase; Alice H. Cox and Mary H. Evans; 195... More

Portrait photo of John Brougham, Glass Negative, 1860s

Title from unverified information on negative sleeve. Annotation from negative, scratched into emulsion: John Brougham. Actor. Credit line: Brady-Handy photograph collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Pho... More

Charles Parsloe. Actor, Glass Negative, 1860s

A black and white photo of a man reading a newspaper. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Ichikawa kuzō sawamura tanosuke nakamura shikan

Print shows three actors, one in the role of a woman. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Format: one panel of a vertical Oban Nishikie tr... More

Sawamura tosshō no shirai gonpachi - Ukiyo e print

Print shows actor Sawamura Tosshō, half-length portrait, facing right, in the role of Shirai Gonpachi, a samurai turned outlaw, about to draw his sword.

Kawarazaki gonjūrō [to] ichikawa kohanji - Ukiyo e print

Print shows actors Kawarazaki Gonjūrō and Ichikawa Kohanji portraying the roles of a man seated on a bench, possibly in a tearoom, and a woman looking at him through an opening behind the bench. Title and other... More

Obshchestvennyia uveseleniia Sredneaziiatsev. Maskarabazi gurlo khodzh...

Photograph shows an actor(?). Illus. in: Turkestanskīĭ alʹbom, chastʹ ėtnograficheskai︠a︡..., 1871-1872, part 2, vol. 2, pl. 88.

[Edwin Booth as Richelieu, Act 4]

Photo copyrighted by J. Gurney. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.

[Portrait of Edwin Booth as Hamlet]

Copyright deposit; 1870; no. 2238. The albumen silver print is a photographic printing process that was widely used in the 19th century. It involves coating paper support with a mixture of egg whites and salt,... More

Booth's Theatre, two weeks, commencing Monday, Feb. 6, every ev'ng and...

Caption: N.W. Whitney. Created by "Armstrong & Co., Boston & N.Y." Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)

Joseph Jefferson, American vaudeville and popular entertainment 1870 1...

Caption: Rip Van Winkle (before the sleep of 20 years). Created by "Lemercier & Cie, Rue de Seine 57, Paris." Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)

Actors on Broadway Miss Phyllis Gordon

A black and white photo of a group of people. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Tour of Mr. Charles B. Hanford - Public domain portrait painting

G xxc 3465 U.S. Copyright Office Caption: Very truly yours, Charles B. Harford. Created and "copyright 1902 by The U.S. Lithograph Co., Russell-Morgan Print, Cincinnati & New York." No. 6302. Forms part of: The... More

[Charles Bryant, actor] - Public domain portrait photograph

A black and white photo of a man in a suit. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Willis Sweatnam - Public domain portrait photograph

Photograph shows Willis P. Sweatnam (1854-1930), minstrel comedian and actor. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2009).

[Scene from the 1913 Italian silent film Quo Vadis?]

J181128-31 U.S. Copyright Office. Logo of Italian studio Cines appears in left corner of image.

Farrar & Lou Tellegen, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows American soprano opera singer Geraldine Farrar (1882-1967) with her husband, actor and screenwriter Lou Tellegen (1881-1934). Farrar holds a dog. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2016) Title fr... More

Rudolph De Cordova & wife - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photograph shows British writer and actor Rudolph de Cordova (1860-1941), who was born in Jamaica, with his wife writer Alicia Ramsey (1864-1933); and possibly her son Guy Haylett Walker Ramsey. (Source: Flickr... More

Folger Library copy work. Portrait of Nathaniel Field

Public domain scan of portrait art print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Byron, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows actor Arthur Byron (1872-1943) seated in a small car with license plate "N.J. - 1921 66019". (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2019) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the nega... More

Mary Pickford in "Little Lord Fauntleroy"

Lobby card showing Mary Pickford about to punch actor Francis Marion during a scene from the film "Little Lord Fauntleroy". Dwight Cleveland Lobby Card Collection. Published in: American women : a Library of Co... More

Ambassador Jusserand, from France, left, with Mrs. Jas. K. Hackett, wi...

Three men and a woman standing on the steps of a building. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Douglas Fairbanks, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows actor Douglas Fairbanks (1883-1939) in the 1927 silent film "The Gaucho." (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2016) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Forms part of... More

[Portrait of George M. Cohan] - Public domain portrait print

Title derived from information on verso of photographic print. Van Vechten number: XI E 38. Also available on microfilm. Gift; Carl Van Vechten Estate; 1966. Forms part of: Portrait photographs of celebrities, ... More

Faithfully reproduced living-room set from at the 1950s smash-hit "I L...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:052-2) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Ca... More

Frank Sinatra and Ava Gardner signing a pledge as good citizens World ...

Photograph shows Frank Sinatra and Ava Gardner signing a pledge sponsored by New York World-Telegram & Sun. Forms part of: New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).

Humble cabin where Elvis Presley was born in 1935

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The cabin was relocated to the Presley birthplace site in Tupelo, Mississippi. Elvis Aaron Presley was an American musician and actor ... More

[Actors in the role of "bad guys" in the Peking Opera]

Digital file provided by donor. Gift; Jean E. Norwood; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:207).

Actors impersonating various historical figures, pose on Pennsylvania ...

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

Opening of the Mary Pickford Theater, James Madison Building, Library ...

Photograph shows Daniel J. Boorstin, Librarian of Congress, speaking outside the Mary Pickford Theater, James Madison Building, Library of Congress during the opening ceremony, 1983. Also shown are (left to rig... More

Portrait photo of [Hexagon Theater performers on stage]

Date from caption information for contact sheet ROLL CALL-2000-19 or corresponding negative sleeve. Contact sheet available for reference purposes: ROLL CALL-2000-19, frame 23/23A. Contact sheet or negative sl... More

Mural depicting actors in the play and book, "To Kill a Mockingbird." ...

Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Alabama Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Phot... More

Moss-draped squares and elegant southern mansions are tourist attratio...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Founded in 1919, Leopold's is owned by movie producer, director, and actor Stratton Leopold. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography,... More

Mural depicting actors in the play and book, "To Kill a Mockingbird." ...

A water feature at the Indian Canyons Golf Resort, once the Canyon Cou...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. The resort is now owned by the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. H... More

A water feature at the Indian Canyons Golf Resort, once the Canyon Cou...

Mural by Cleburne, Texas, artist Stylle Read in the outdoor eating are...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The mural shows two cowboys, including one who looks very much like actor James Dean. In the distance is the facade of Reata, the man... More

The kid auto race, featuring Charlie Chaplin

Motion picture poster for "The Kid Auto Race" showing Charlie Chaplin standing, leaning against a post, holding cigar. Published in: Eyes of the nation : a visual history of the United States / Vincent Virga an... More

Lithuanian Americans. Paulina Barauskas, actress, Chicago, Illinois.

Online digital image numbers may be offset by 1 or 2 digits from the film negative frame numbers. Film negative frame numbers, descriptions: 0-13, Mrs. Paulina Barauskas, actress, in living room, 732 W. 19th St... More

D'Army Bailey oral history interview conducted by David P. Cline in Me...

D'Army Bailey describes growing up in Memphis, Tennessee, the influence of the Crump political machine in city politics, and his involvement with the Memphis NAACP at an early age. He talks about his participat... More

Paintings by Winthrop Prevost, Lowell, Massachusetts

Index data: Paintings by Winthrop Prevost, discussed on Martha Norkunas' tape interview. Several have the Holy Land as a subject. 1-2, "Trawler," an oil from the 1940s. Horiz: about two feet; 3-4, "Portland (Ma... More

D'Army Bailey oral history interview conducted by David P. Cline in Me...

Sandaime segawa kikunojō - Public domain portrait print

Print shows actor Segawa Kikunojō III, full-length portrait, standing, body turned to the left, facing right.

Tsubone iwafuji chūrō onoe meshitukai hatsu, Kuniyoshi Utagawa

Triptych matted in 3 sections: left (424a), center (424b), right (424c). Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-2006. Format: vertical Oban Nishi... More

[George M. Cohan, head-and-shoulders portrait]

Public domain image of a male portrait, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Edwin Booth as Hamlet, portrait print

Published in: Viewpoints; a selection from the pictorial collections of the Library of Congress .... Washington : Library of Congress ..., 1975, no. 167. Exhibited: American Treasures of the Library of Congres... More

[Portraits of actors, often playing roles]

Public domain photo of Japanese woodblock print (Ukiyo-e), free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Portraits of actors, often playing roles]

Public domain photo of Japanese woodblock print (Ukiyo-e), free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Portraits of actors, often playing roles]

Public domain photo of Japanese woodblock print (Ukiyo-e), free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Portraits of actors, often playing roles]

Public domain photo of Japanese woodblock print (Ukiyo-e), free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Dance Her new partner comedy sketch - Public domain musical sheets

Picryl description: Public domain image of music song book page, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Saitōgo kunitake; kurando yukinaga; osada no tarō nagamune

Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Triptych matted in 3 sections: left (2122a), center (2122b), right (2122c). Format: vertical Oban Nish... More

Saitōgo kunitake; kurando yukinaga; osada no tarō nagamune

Kyō kudari osagawa tsuneyoshi [to] ichimura kamezō no soga no jūrō

Print shows two actors, one portraying a woman and the other in the role of one of the Soga brothers. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. ... More

Harris and Ewing, Washington, D.C., Political Cartoon

A black and white drawing of a man and a woman, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection Portraits and news photographs by Washington, D.C.-based firm, showing people, events, architecture in Washington... More

[ Danny Kaye dances with company actors onstage in 'Let's Face It']

Box marked: DKA_VSBOX7 Folder marked: Let's Face It (General) The Library of Congress provides access to these materials for educational and research purposes and makes no warranty with regard to their use fo... More

Godaime matsumoto kōshirō no kudō saemon no suke

Print shows actor Matsumoto Kōshirō V, full-length portrait, facing slightly left, wearing geta, standing in a courtyard. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print spec... More

[Kabuki scene of early photography] / Yoshiiku.

Triptych shows four actors: two men on the left, a man in the center holding a book and some prints or photographs, and a woman on the right standing with a large camera behind her. Triptych matted in 3 sectio... More

Igami no gonta gonta nyōbō kosen shūme kokingo

Print shows a scene from the play Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura, with actors playing Igami no Gonta, his wife Kosen, the servant Kokingo, and another person. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichi... More

Montpelier, 13480 South Montpelier Road, Montpelier Station, Orange Co...

Significance: Montpelier is situated on land granted by patent in 1723 to Ambrose Madison and his brother-in-law Thomas Chew. The patent was divided in 1732 at the death of Ambrose. The Madison family progeny... More

Montpelier, 13480 South Montpelier Road, Montpelier Station, Orange Co...

Sanjō Kokaji no manebigoto zu - Public domain drawing

Print shows three actors as warrior/metalworkers hammering a sword. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Triptych matted in 3 sections: lef... More

Ulichnye aktery vy Samarkandi︠e︡. Zakaspīĭskye tipy Acteurs ambulants ...

Print shows Transcaspian men and boy street actors in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, formerly Russia. Forms part of: Winokur-Munblit Collection of the Russian Empire Postcards (Library of Congress). Purchase; Marshall... More

Oyone magoshichi taheiji, Kuniyoshi Utagawa - Ukiyo e print

Print shows two warriors and a woman around a fire, one warrior appears to be protecting the woman from the other warrior. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print spe... More

Matsumoto kōshirō, iwaya hanshirō, nakamura shikan

Print shows two actors on the shoulders of a giant and the third actor leaping onto the giant. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-2006. Forma... More

Mark Twain House, 351 Farmington Avenue (corrected from original addre...

Sometimes architecturally referred to as "Mississippi Steamboat" style. Significance: Completed in 1874, the Mark Twain house was designed by Edward Tuckerman Potter and Alfred H. Thorp for noted American autho... More

Mark Twain House, 351 Farmington Avenue (corrected from original addre...

Chotto hitokuchi hauta no ateburi - Ukiyo e print

Print shows several actors in various costume, posture, and roles. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Triptych matted in 3 sections: left... More

Mitanoshi to Yamauba, Utagawa Kunisada, Japan

Print shows the characters of Yamauba, an old woman who lives in the mountains, and Mitanoshi, who appears to be an old priest or monk, in a shosagoto dance routine with a rabbit and a deer competing in a feat ... More

[Benjamin Johnson, English actor, head-and-shoulders portrait facing s...

Signed and dated on plate. Gardiner Greene Hubbard Collection. Public domain scan of portrait print from Library of Congress, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Nakamura nakazō, Shunsh Katsukawa - Ukiyo e print

Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Format: Hosoban Nishikie. Adachi modern reprint (Showa). Purchase; H. Irving Olds; 1938. Forms part of... More

Onoe matsusuke no odamakihime to ōtani hiroji no okabe no ro

Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Format: Hosoban Benizuri-e. Forms part of: R. Leicester Harmsworth collection. Forms part of: Japanese... More

Iwai hanshirō, Shunsh Katsukawa - Ukiyo e print

Print shows Iwai Hanshirō, full-length portrait, standing beneath umbrella, facing left. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-2006. Format: one... More

Segawa Kikunojō. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Print shows the actor Segawa Kikunojō III, full-length portrait, standing, facing right, in the role of a geisha. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists ... More

Komekitte o motsu nakamura nakazō, Shunk Katsukawa

Print shows the actor Nakamura Nakazō, full-length, standing on the shore, facing slightly left, holding a rice coupon. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specia... More

Shodai arashi ryūzō (no yakko ukiyo matabei to) sandaime ōtani hiroji...

Print shows actors Arashi Ryuzo I and Otani Hiroji III. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Format: vertical Oban Nishikie. Adachi modern ... More

Utagawa Toyokuni - Ichikawa danzō dō danzaburō

Print shows two actors, full-length portrait, one as a woman holding branches with blossoms. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Format: v... More

Sandanme, print by Utamaro Kitagawa, Forty Seven Rōnin

Print shows a woman (possibly Okaru), a little man (possibly Moronô's servant Bannai), and another man (possibly Honzo or Kampei). Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo p... More

Kira Yoshinaka - Shodan, print by Utamaro Kitagawa, Forty Seven Rōnin

Print shows actors in the roles of Moronō (Kira Yoshinaka) propositioning Lady Kaoyo, Enya's wife, and Wakasanosuke (a noble offended by Moronō's behavior). Title and other descriptive information compiled by N... More

[Kyōgen play with two characters]

Drawing shows an actor on the left with short sword and holding a fan, on the right is an actor wearing a hat and standing on a bundle with his arms spread, as though about to fly. Signature or inscription in ... More

Iwai Hanshirō, Utagawa Toyokuni - Ukiyo e print

Print showing the actor Iwai Hanshirō, full-length, sitting on the floor, playing the role of a woman. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06.... More

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